You're sure of a warm welcome along the awe-奮起させるing Wild 大西洋 Way. Here's why you should follow your nose and let Ireland do the 残り／休憩（する）...

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Talk about the luck of the Irish. We are enjoying a sumptuous dinner at a country house hotel in 郡 Clare when our fellow diners stream out の上に the terrace in the middle of dessert. What’s wrong? A 解雇する／砲火／射撃 alarm?

No ? it’s a sunset for the ages. We watch in awed silence as the 広大な／多数の／重要な orange ball 下落するs into the sea before turning the horizon fifty shades of pink.

But, then, this comes as 基準 on the Wild 大西洋 Way, which runs for 1,600 miles in western Ireland, zig-zagging with the landscape and taking so many detours that it is like a shaggy dog story in a pub.

Pubs, many with live music, are intrinsic to this glorious 大勝する from Donegal to Cork 開始する，打ち上げるd by the Irish tourist board in 2014. But then so are empty beaches, craggy mountains, sleepy villages and bustling towns.

It is like a tasting menu for 独立した・無所属 travellers. Roaming, not getting from A to B, is the 指名する of the game. You just follow your nose and Ireland does the 残り／休憩（する）.

On a 小旅行する of Ireland's Wild 大西洋 Way, Max Davidson stops at Slieve League in Donegal (pictured), which has some of the highest sea cliffs in Europe

Our 焦点（を合わせる） is the northern section between Clare and Donegal, each 郡 more ravishing than the last. We are also keen to 調査する the sparsely 住むd islands where The Banshees Of Inisherin was filmed. Can they かもしれない be as fabulous as in the movie?

Yes is the answer. We take the フェリー（で運ぶ） from Doolin to Inishmore, the furthest of the Aran Islands, where some of the film was 発射.

Drystone 塀で囲むs bisect fields 侵略（する）／超過（する） with flowers. White horses peep out from behind tumbledown cottages. 狭くする 小道／航路s 勝利，勝つd 負かす／撃墜する to rocky beaches. Fishermen 荷を降ろす their catch at the harbour. Everyone knows everyone and nobody is too busy to stop for a 雑談（する）. Cyril O’Flaherty, our guide for the day, was born on the island and, if he has his way, will die on it. Who would 非難する him?

Max visits?Inishmore, the furthest of the Aran Islands, where some of the?The Banshees Of Inisherin was filmed?

Above is Kylemore Abbey, which Max says is one of the 'glories' of Connemara

Here, at an extremity of Europe, people have been finding peace and tranquility since time immemorial, from 6th Century 修道士s to modern writers such as John Millington Synge, high priest of Irish folklore.

Cyril shows us the ‘salmon 井戸／弁護士席’ ? a 宗教上の 場所／位置 associated with 古代の 奇蹟s ? then introduces us to his pony Minnie, who had a cameo 役割 in the Banshees. She 提起する／ポーズをとるs for selfies like a Hollywood プロの／賛成の.

The next morning, we 再開する our Wild 大西洋 Way 長期冒険旅行, 長，率いるing north to Connemara. The roads are thrillingly uncrowded and the only haz ard is 存在 待ち伏せ／迎撃するd by some jaw-dropping 見解（をとる）s. Vibrant colours abound; the iridescent green of the Emerald 小島 is matched by the purple of the heather and the red of the fuchsias in the hedgerows.

One of the glories of Connemara is Kylemore Abbey, a stately pile beside a lake that’s now home to an order of Benedictine 修道女s.

Max spends a night in Strandhill (pictured), which he says was packed with surfers?

After a night of shameless over-indulgence in Galway ? a party town if ever there was one ? we 長，率いる north again to Sligo. It is more 居住させるd than the Aran Islands but still has that quintessential Irish blend of scenic beauty and informal charm. Outside the hairdresser, a trio of 年輩の sheep are crossing the road so slowly that they nearly 原因（となる） a pile-up. But nobody would ever question their 権利 to roam.

Sligo is associated with the poet W B Yeats, but even he would have struggled to find words for our next 運動 ? the most thrilling yet ? around the Coolera 半島.

The 大西洋 is at its wildest as it 続けざまに猛撃するs the rocky shoreline and the 広範囲にわたる bays. Flocks of sandpipers try to 飛行機で行く out に向かって the sea but are beaten 支援する by the 勝利，勝つd. Sheep 粘着する to 法外な hillsides.

No wonder this corner of Ireland is so popular with surfers. Strandhill, where we spend the night, is packed with them unwinding at the Voya 海草 baths or Mammy Johnston’s Ice Cream Parlour.

After a 十分な Irish breakfast, which we would be fools to 拒絶する, we 長，率いる for the 山地の Donegal, the 最北の 郡 in the Irish 共和国. Slieve League, the most 劇の 塚 of the lot, has some of the highest sea cliffs in Europe, rising majestically above the swell of the 大西洋.

によれば Max, pubs, many with live music, are 'intrinsic' to the Wild 大西洋 Way 大勝する

We tramp 上向きs and 上向きs, buffeted by the 勝利，勝つd, but too captivated by the 見解（をとる）s to notice, then have a hearty lunch of seafood chowder at the Rusty Mackerel, yet another of those wacky hostelries in which this friendliest of countries abounds.

Our final port of call is the 遺産 town of Ard ara, known for 伝統的な tweed-making and live music. You will not find better craic in all Ireland than at the Corner House ? there is a smile on every 直面する as the music （犯罪の）一味s around. 米，稲 the fiddler is playing a blinder, his 肘 going up and 負かす／撃墜する like a piston.

As we 長，率いる 支援する to Dublin to catch the フェリー（で運ぶ）, still humming those old songs, myriad images of the Wild 大西洋 Way 渦巻く around in our 長，率いるs: sunlit hillsides; waves 衝突，墜落ing on the 激しく揺するs; sheep 密談する／（身体を）寄せ集めるd under an old 石／投石する 橋（渡しをする）; the jolliest traffic warden in Connemara, a one-man Chuckle Brother.

Why 長，率いる to the Med when there are such riches on your doorstep?